Here's a challenge. I n rooting through several differnet wooden cases of inherited family silver for table-settings at Thanksgiviing, we came upon a number of items whose use we didn't know (and in some cases couldn't imagine). They are shown below. How many do you know? Any? (PS: "A" is not damaged or melted. The cross on "D" is a cutout.)

If crowdsourcing doesn't work out, Cooks Illustrated has a feature on unidentified kitchen items that I believe extends to silverware as well, and they always seem to find out what the mystery items are.

D - a tomato server, if the bowl area is mostly flattened, used to serve sliced or broiled tomatoes, the cutout allowed excess juice to drain away before serving

E - pie or pastry fork (used for desserts, "Three or four tined fork with one wide cutting tine. The wider cutting tineis for cutting through pastry and desserts without damaging the fork" A larger full size version is a "Delmonico Oyster Fork")

I can't tell if C is flat or curved; if flat, I'd guess it's a fancy sort of server for wedges of cheese or tart, but if curved the "it's a berry spoon" contingent may be right. E is an early form of "knork"!! Or more properly, a pastry/dessert fork for eating pie (edge cuts nicely through pastry); also seen them used for cheese (use the edge to slice, the tines to fork it up and put it on your plate). I have my mom's silver and the dessert fork is very similar to this, quite small.

D I'm guessing is some kind of religious thing??

I wonder if A is an early form of spatula, before there were flexible rubber ones? The flatter edge would make it easy to scrape the sides of large bowl or bottom of a flat pan.

B is a total mystery, although the shape nags at me as though I've seen it somewhere before...